MYRISTICACÉES. 505 
GENERA 
1. Myristiea L. — Flores diœci; receptaculo brevi convexo. Perian- 
thium simplex (calycmum), sepius 3-lobum (rarius2-4-lobum), valvatum. 
Stamina (in flore fæmineo 0), aut 3, cum perianthii foliolis alternantia, 
aut sæpius 4-12, v. w ; antheris forma variis, 2-locularibus, extrorsis, 
longitudine rimosis ; filamentis, aut a basi mediove liberis, aut stipiti 
communi longitudinaliter adnatis, v. cirea suprave stipitem dorso basive 
adnatis, rarius in orbem radiantibus; connectivo sæpe in acumen breve 
cuique antheræ proprium v. omnibus commune apice produeto. Germen 
(in flore masculo 0) liberum, 1-loculare; stigmate brevi subsessili, sub- 
integro, depresso v. vix 2-lobo. Ovulum 1, subbasilare, adscendens, 
anatropum ; micropyle infera dorsal. Fructus carnosus, tarde dehiscens, 
longitudine 2- v. rarius 4-valvis. Semen suberectum sessile, arillo 
basi integro, a medio sæpius lobato lacerove, colorato, tenui v. carnoso, 
sæpe aromatico, involutum ; integumento 3-plier; externo membranaceo 
v. subcarnoso; intermedio testaceo; interno tenui, intus plicis inter 
lobos albuminis ruminati productis aucto. Embryo sub apice albuminis 
copiosi carnosi minutus ; radicula brevi infera; cotyledonibus divergen- 
tibus, planis v. crispato-undulatis. — Arbores (v. frutices) sæpe aroma- 
ticæ succoque scatentes ; foliis alternis (distichis) integris, sæpius 
éoriaceis pellucido-punctatis, penninerviis, vernatione involuto-condu- 
plicatis, exstipulaceis; floribus in racemos (sæpe spurios), simplices v. 
sæpius ramosos pauci v. sæpius multifloros, axillares v. supra-axillares, 
dispositis. (Orbis tot. reg. tropice.) — Vid. p.198. 
